RI, MA EHS Pest Control Blog

You really can’t make this stuff up!!! Granted it is a London story but it had to do with squirrels which we deal with all year long plus it was too funny not to put on our blog.

The headline is “Crack-crazed squirrels terrorize South London” and it is a very true statement. In a desperate search for a fix, eschewing their traditional nuts and digging up residents' front gardens in what appears to be a credible zoological threat squirrels are hooked on crack. HOW???

Crack dealers and addicts have apparently taken to burying their stashes in people's gardens in the streets around the suburban towns after police crackdowns forced them from the concrete of cities. Neighborhood residents are reporting “ill-looking squirrels with bloodshot eyes desperately digging. It was almost as if it was trying to find hidden crack rocks." Other residents have seen squirrels become unusually aggressive. Crack squirrels are a recognized problem in America. They are common in parks used by addicts in New York and Washington DC. They have been known to attack park visitors in their search for a fix.

Be careful you do not get mugged or car jacked by a crack addicted squirrel!!!

Comments

Tony King commented on 13-Oct-2010 07:25 AM

I can totally relat to this story as I own a pest control company in London and have also come across stashes of drugs in parks and open spaces. Many years ago we baited some famous parks in Central London they had rats and we installed metal rat bait
stations in discreet locations. To our amazement drug users and dealers were using the bait stations to hide their drugs, not sure if the rats ever ate any of the stash but we had to have a police presence everytime we checked the boxes.